Thursday, June 22, 2017

Kremlin Agents Seeking to Reduce Part of Kazakhs to a Russian-Speaking Sub-Ethnos of the Russian Nation, Gali Says

Paul
Goble

Staunton, June 22 – The Russian government
has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s
sovereignty and independence by transforming a portion of the Kazakhs into a
Russian-speaking people that Moscow will then insist are “a sub-ethnos” of the
Russian nation, according to outspoken Kazakh nationalist Azimbay Gali.

·First,
Gali says, Moscow’s agents are promoting trilingual education in Kazakhstan’s
Kazakh schools to reduce the quality of those schools, discredit them in the
eyes of the population, and prevent the further “Kazakhization” of the country.

·Second,
these agents are exerting “significant influence on cadres policy” in the
republic, assuring that those who become akims (governors) or ministers are
people who may be Kazakh by nationality but who speak the language poorly or
not at all.

·Third,
Moscow’s over-arching goal is “the creation of a Russian-speaking Kazakh
sub-ethnos” so that “tomorrow they will tell us: we have our own literature,
classics, Russian-language mosques, and a ‘spiritual donor,’ Russia; and in
this way they will be able to split the country.

·Fourth,
the most dangerous of these agents have succeeded in remaining in office and
have not been subject to lustration. That has allowed them to continue to do
Moscow’s work under the guise of promoting Astana’s.

·And
fifth, because these agents are skilled at shifting the blame on others for any
problems, “the time has come to call things by their right names, to identify
the influential Russian agents and block their actions.”